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一本- IPPAI Fusion Japanese Cuisine

一本 - ippai Fusion Japanese Cuisine
8865 Woodbine Ave. Unit D5
Markham, Ontario L3R 5G1
(905) 470-1688

My family, Brian and I attended the grand opening of my cousin's new Japanese restaurant last night. There were lots of people that attended and flower baskets were all over the store. After the cocktail event, we had dinner there. I only took a couple pictures cuz after the first few dishes, we were too busy stuffing food in our mouth that we totally forgot about the photos!
Prices are very reasonable, it came out to be around $100 for six people and we had A LOT of food!. Here's what we ordered:

Spinach Ramen in Milk Broth topped with Japanese Style Pork Slices
Regular Ramen in Butter & Miso Broth topped with Pork Cutlet
We really enjoyed the ramen here, the milk broth really stood out although it was a bit on the heavy side.. The ramen were made in house, they also have a squid ink one that I really wanted to try but they didn't have any yesterday.

Hot Stone Pot with chicken with ginger sauce
I think this was our favourite dish. Taste was excellent!! The ginger taste was not as strong as I expected but its perfect for my preference =)

Red, Yellow & Green roll --> I forgot the name of this dish
I have had this dish before in their previous restaurant. Our family really liked this dish because it is their speciality and we couldn't find it anywhere else. Our favourate was the yellow rolls. its a fried fish maki topped with mango slices drizzled with a mango sauce & mayo concoction. Very light yet flavorful.

other food that we ordered include dynamite roll, seven angels sushi, shrimp tempura and a chicken pancake. All in all they were excellent, althought the shrimp tempura was a little to the salty side. I would definitely recommend this to any friends who wanted decent quality Japanese food at a fair price.

new theme....

suddenly felt like changing up the blog.. I was contemplating using a photoblog theme but then I don't think I will have the dedication to upload one each day unless I can upload from mobile.. too bad my acct doesn't support it booo...

i should really change it for a more winter theme... =P Sorry Brian I know this is not a very "gender neutral theme" but hey.. at least its not pink ;)

woohoo TV had arrived...

After going through much pain in following up, calling, shouting.... we finally got our TV after almost one month. That's gotta be the worst experience ever!! The sales person was so unprofessional, he promises you the world and gives you nil... He told us when we first bought it that it will arrive at the store in a few days.. a week went by and the TV had not arrived yet. He then called us and said that our TV is on its way, its be hold up for us for mid Nov.. followed by a correction the same day that its going to come Nov. 23rd. Guess What, Brian and I went to FS on Sunday, the day before we should pick up our TV and found out that there are TV there but none were reserved for US. What made us furious was that there was no order in the system to hold any or to deliver any from the warehouse WTF!!!!! Brian almost ripe the manager head off that day although it wasn't really his fault but hey.. if it wasn't for that, we wouldn't have gotten our TV on that same day!... I really can't believe those ppl sometimes... you get nowhere if you are nice!!

We love our TV... o i think we got jip with the planet earth on craigslist... its so much noise I am wondering if its the real thing... no more craigslist for me!!!!

First Day of Work

First Day back to work isn't exactly as productive as I thought... still in this vacation mode.

It's a suprise to me that my coworkers decorated my desk and put signs everywhere saying "welcome back brian!" I was quiet happy to see that I'm actually missed :)

I spent the first hour cleaning off 2 months of dust at my desk and the rest of the day I was replying to email and trying to be productive. My boss is too busy to give me an update on all the projects. He did mention that I'll be doing more future planning stuff instead of all the reactive projects.

After work Winnie & I got home and checked on Yoshi to take him to the washroom before we head back out to order our furniture. Yoshi actually didn't pee on the carpet or anything for the whole day! We'll keep him unlock from now on since he's been soo good :)

After dinner, cleaning and everything it was already 10:30pm. Hopefully it'll be better later on when we don't have to visit the supermarket after work :)